Our dog adoption fee is $325 and our cat adoption fee is $125. Our adoption fee for all animals includes spay/neutering and animals are vaccinated prior to adoption. Fees also include other medical and physical care provided while at the shelter. We take in many animals that would face euthanasia in shelters due to costly medical conditions. Our adoption fee goes straight to helping us care for all the animals we take in that require expensive surgeries, heartworm treatment, treatment for URI’s, treatment of worms, etc. because we don’t just “shelter,” we RESCUE and save lives!
It depends. If the animal is ready to go home that day, we try our best to go ahead and send them to their new forever home! However, we will have to get your application approved in order to send the animal home. Most of our puppies will not be able to go home during your appointment time and in that case, a $100 non-refundable deposit will be required to hold the puppy as yours until they are ready to go home.
We post each of our adoptable animals on our Facebook page: Kind Keeper No-Kill Animal Rescue! On our Facebook page under the “Dogs for Adoption” & “Cats for Adoption” album you can find a full bio on each animal. We keep our Facebook page most up-to-date with what animals we have available as it is updated daily, and you will be able to find more pictures/videos of our animals.
We do not hold animals prior to the adopter coming to meet the animal first. We only hold an animal if we are not able to get your application approved during your appointment time. If we must do a hold on an animal while we are waiting to get your application approved, it will only hold them for 2 days, as we need the space to help more animals in need! If puppies are not ready to go home yet, you can put a $100 non-refundable deposit down on the puppy in order to hold them as yours until they are ready to go home.
Two of the biggest things we check for are permission from your HOA/landlord and your vet records. It is important to us that all our animals go to great homes! If you have an HOA/landlord we must check your pet policy to ensure that there are no breed restrictions, weight limits, limit on # of pets, etc. and we must make sure the animal you are interested in adopting follows all your communities' rules. We also want to make sure that we get good references from your vet/personal references. We check with your vet to make sure you keep your current/past animals up to date on vaccines and that you keep your dogs on heartworm preventative, and have an overall good vet history.
In order for us to take in any animal, we have to get approval from Belinda, our director. If you need to surrender an animal, please fill out the surrender form located under the surrender tab to the best of your ability. Please make sure to attach pictures of the animal as well. If we can help, we will contact you. We do not come out and pick up animals.